Wednesday, August 29, 2007

BEING A SKILLED COMMUNICATOR (SUMMARY)

Communication skills are the way to improve the quality of communication to transmit an idea, because those activities are important when companies or people making promotional decisions or ideas for a specific audience.

The article mentions that there are some examples that majority of people in cities lack abilities to communicate, but people who have communication abilities have the competition beat by a mile in a job. There are some key elements that help to be a good communicator, one of them, according to Kathy Maixner’s article, is to take a sincere interest in what others (audience) have to say, regardless, none of the audience finds the information boring or irrelevant.

Good communicators know the importance to take a time to ask the right questions and listen to the answers, since a lot of contact with all kind of information benefits the audience and themselves, this is never time wasted, since she said that when people have success, is when they made feel special the audience, it does mean when they remember important dates, names, events, and they take time to explain well.

The author mentioned too, about the gesture during in the presentation, according to studies in the article, each of common communicators has shown that there’s a contradiction between the words and actions. A solution by them is that people practice, making sure that their nonverbal communication affects their good verbal intentions.

To increment the communication effectiveness, people have to practice, since they are all works in progress.


GRAMMAR: Subject-verb agreement in sentences with quantifiers

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